News and How to Use It

What to Believe in a Fake News World

News and How to Use It
Alan Rusbridger
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 336pg
4 Nov 2021 UK
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9781838854430
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A society that isn' t sure what' s true can' t function, but increasingly we no longer seem to know who or what to believe. We' re barraged by a torrent of lies, half-truths and propaganda: how do we even identify good journalism any more? At a moment of existential crisis for the news industry, in our age of information chaos, News and How to Use It shows us how. From Bias to Snopes, from Clickbait to TL;DR, and from Fact-Checkers to the Lamestream Media, here is a definitive user' s guide for how to stay informed, tell truth from fiction and hold those in power accountable in the modern age.
' Given that Rusbridger is, in my opinion, one of the two great newspaper editors of the past half-century (the other is the late Harry Evans), anything he writes about the press is going to be worth reading . . . Many of the mini-essays are useful distillations of his experience in, and knowledge of, the industry' - Guardian ' If you are interested in the mechanics of the news, especially related to the times we are living in, going through and set to go through, then this book is a must' - NIHAL ARTHANAYAKE, BBC ' [Rusbridger] was one of the stand-out editors of his generation and it shows in his book: an astute and agreeably random canter through the imperfect world of journalism in Britain and America . . . erudite' - Financial Times ' An agreeable and very worthwhile book. It invites you to think and question. It is informative and entertaining' - Scotsman ' Smart, relevant and punchy . . . a powerful light in the darkness' - Evening Standard
Alan Rusbridger was Editor-in-Chief of Guardian News & Media from 1995 to 2015. He launched the Guardian in the US and Australia as well as building a website which today attracts more than 100 million unique browsers a month. The paper' s coverage of phone-hacking led to the Leveson Inquiry into press standards and ethics. Guardian US won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service for its leading global coverage of the Snowden revelations. He is the author of Play It Again and Breaking News. He lives in London and Oxford, where he is Principal of Lady Margaret Hall and chairs the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. @arusbridger | arusbridger. com
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ISBN-13: 9781838854430
Published: 4 Nov 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Canongate Books
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 336

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